Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

[Jesper Juhl]

On 3/7/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >
> > On 3/7/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > And since 2.6.16-rc5-git8 is not experiencing problems I'd suggest you
> > > >  perhaps instead take a look at what's in -mm... That's where we need
> > > >  to work (it seems) to find the bug...
> > >
> > > Yes, it's very probably something in git-scsi-misc.
> > >
> > I would say that's correct. I just build 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 with just
> > git-scsi-misc.patch reverted, and that makes the problem go away.
>
> Ok. I was kind of hoping that it was just a more reliable case of the
> corruption that Andrew had been seeing too (which seems to be hard to
> trigger in mainline too, but might exist there).
>
> > So now the big question is; what part(s) of git-scsi-misc is broken?
>
> Well, its origin is actually a git tree, so you could try the "git bisect"
> approach using the
>
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6.git
>
> tree that the patch comes from..
>

I'll give that a go tomorrow - right now I need to get some sleep.
If there are other things to try, then just drop me a mail and I'll
test it tomorrow.

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